Executing Multiple SQL queries in one connection

Question

I'm trying to do, 2 queries in a single connection to my MySQL database.
At the moment I'm just passing a String into execute query.
I want to do another check in the database just after I get the first query's results.
Right now, I'm closing the connection and creating a whole new one again as it doesn't seem to work otherwise.
Do I just need to create a new "Statement" & "ResultSet" and then do my thing within the connection brackets?
I did that but was getting no response. Perhaps I'm missing something?
Code to SELECT all Documentaries from the database:
String getDocs = "SELECT * from podDir WHERE genre='Documentaries'";
    try {
      Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/jspod", "root", "pass");
      System.out.println("got connection");
      Statement s = con.createStatement();
      ResultSet r2 = s.executeQuery(getDocs);
      while (r2.next()) {
        out.println("<TD>" + StringUtil.encodeHtmlTag(r2.getString(1)) + "</TD>");
        out.println("<TD><A href='" + StringUtil.encodeHtmlTag(r2.getString(3)) + "'>" + StringUtil.encodeHtmlTag(r2.getString(2)) + "</a></TD>");
        out.println("<TD>" + StringUtil.encodeHtmlTag(r2.getString(4)) + "</TD>");
        out.println("<TD>Subscribe</TD>");
        out.println("</TR>");
        out.println("<TR><TD></TD><TD>" + StringUtil.encodeHtmlTag(r2.getString(6)) + "</TD>");
        out.println("</TR>");
      r2.close();
      s.close();
      con.close();
    catch (SQLException e) {
    catch (Exception e) {
    }

Answer 1

Thanks ram..
I'm now finding I'm facing a situation, however where
I need two executions ongoing at one time.
I need to select all listings from a directory table
and then check if the person logged in has subscribed
to that listing from a "Mysubs" table concurrently to
display "You are/not subscribed to this
listing".
Is it possible to have two ongoing executions?Some would prefer to do all that in a single query - but then one has to be pretty good in sql for that.
You can do the stuff with 2 or more queries too. Open a Connection, create a PreparedStatement(or a Statement) with your first query for the listings. Get the result set, hold the output in a ListingModel object. You would then close the result set and the statement and then open new ones for your second query which can be supplemented with data from the model object. Or you can retrieve the entire data and compare with the listing info in the ListingModel object. Close everything in a finally block.
ram.